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Globe at Night is an international scientific research program that crowdsources measurements of light pollution in the night sky. At set time periods within each year, the project asks people to count the number of stars that they can see from their location and report it to the project's website. The coordinating researchers compile this ...
English: This image of Earth’s city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth’s surface.
Aurora. An aurora[ a] ( pl. aurorae or auroras ), [ b] also commonly known as the northern lights ( aurora borealis) or southern lights ( aurora australis ), [ c] is a natural light display in Earth 's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic ).
Incredible images showed that the aurora borealis’ bands of pink, purple and green appeared in the sky over many states on Friday night. A new forecast map suggests that there is a strong chance ...
This is a list of alleged UFO sightings in the United States . Sighting by James Everell, who witnessed a light in the sky darting back and forth before finally fading away. [ 1] Sighting by trapper James Lumley of a craft and a subsequent crash, with descriptions of sulfur smells and descriptions of hieroglyphics. [ 2]
Tribute in Light as seen from Brooklyn in 2014. The Tribute in Light is an art installation created in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. [1] It consists of 88 vertical searchlights arranged in two columns of light to represent the Twin Towers. It stands six blocks south of the World Trade Center on top of the Battery Parking Garage [2 ...
Ufologists. Alleged extraterrestrial beings. v. t. e. The Phoenix Lights (sometimes called the " Lights Over Phoenix ") were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects observed in the skies over the southwestern U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada on March 13, 1997. [2] Lights of varying descriptions were seen between 7:30 pm – 10: ...
An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky in the early morning hours of Monday, April 24, 2023, near Washtucna, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)